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Meet the biology professor who named the surging ‘Kraken’ COVID variant. He has more to help make...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoEveryone knows the names of the major COVID variants Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. But last year, viral...
Omicron subvariants reflect a ‘viral evolution on steroids’
The Today Show via AOL· 2 years agoAn omicron subvariant is once again demonstrating immune-dodging abilities, posing a threat to both...
The names for COVID variants are a confusing alphabet soup. Here's why it got so muddled
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoShibuya Tokyo city crowd mask focus RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images Last week, a COVID-19...
Why We Don't Have a Pi Variant Yet—Even After So Much Omicron
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn illustration of SARS-CoV-2 created at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credit...
A new COVID variant is now dominant in the U.S. Will it cause another massive surge like Omicron?
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA group of people wear face masks as they walk past the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023...
Scientists have their eyes on several ‘Deltacrons’—new COVID variants with the potential to attack...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoEarlier this year, all eyes were on “Deltacron”—a Frankenvirus, of sorts, that combined Delta and...
‘Pirola’ BA.2.86 may not be a ‘black swan’ event like Omicron, experts say. It’s what could spawn...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoHighly mutated COVID strain “Pirola” BA.2.86 may not be a “black swan” event after all, introducing...
BA.5 makes up nearly 80% of new COVID-19 cases. Here's what to know about the subvariant
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe BA.5 subvariant of omicron dominates the summer wave of COVID-19 in the USA, making up nearly...
Do You Really Need This New Omicron Booster? Here’s What Experts Say.
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMaddie Abuyuan / BuzzFeed News Sorry to break it to you, but COVID is still here — and likely to...
The XBB family of Omicron has landed in the U.S. Here’s what it means for this fall’s COVID wave
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoXBB—a new, extremely immune-evasive Omicron variant surging in Singapore—hasn’t yet been detected in...